Active Community : Popular Threads - Spinning Nation - June 28, 2008

Raise $500 in just 5 Days!

TrustedTS — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:54:58 GMT

Hi folks,

We have put together some tips to raise your funds easily and quickly! The reality is, people do want to support these great causes!

How to raise $500 in just 5 days!

Tim Hardin

Web Designer for Spinning Nation

East Coast Spinning Nation Riders per Club as of 6/16

ScottAthletesforaCure — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:54:04 GMT

Urban Active-West Lake 94

Michael's Body Scenes-Boca Raton 80

New York Sports Club-Westwood 55

Shoreline Health&Fit-Old Saybrook 44

Club Fit-Briarcliff Manor 36

Prince George's Sports-Landover 25

TJX Companies-Framingham 25

Crunch-38th Street-New York 22

Crunch-Parkway Pointe-Atlanta 21

Crunch-Fort Greene-Brooklyn 18

Crunch-59th Street-New York 16

Fitness Factory-Palisades Park 16

Williams Island-Aventura 16

Arena District A.C.-Columbus 15

Pure Fitness-Island Park 15

Crunch-Kips Bay-New York 14

Elements Health Club-Toms River 13

Urban Active-Louisville 13

Women's World-Tallahassee 13

AFC/Jenkintown-Jenkintown 12

Breakthrough Fitness-Hilton Head 11

Crunch-Buckhead-Atlanta 11

UNO Fitness Center-Scranton 11

Crunch-Washington Rd-Miami Beach 10

Gold's Gym-Windsor 10

Lenox Fitness Ctr-Lenox 10

Rush Fitness Complex-Chattanooga 9

Sky Athletic Club-Rockville Centre 9

Club4Life - Monroeville 8

Elite Fitness-Hamden 8

Feminine Fitness-Hackensack 8

Franklin Athletic Club-Soutfield 8

The Club-Gulf Breeze 8

Crunch-83rd Street-New York 7

The Edge-Ramsey 7

Cornerstone Aquatics-W. Hartford 6

Rochester Athletic Club-Rochester 6

Summerville YMCA-Summerville 6

Univ. of Cincinnati-Cincinnati 6

Birchwood Athletic-Fort Gratiot 5

Citi Health&Fitness Center-NY 5

Classic Althletic Club-Lyndhurst 5

Core-Ctr of Real Energy-Providence 5

Crunch-Union Square-New York 5

Granville Fitness-Granville 5

Lake Nona YMCA-Orlando 5

RWJ Hamilton-Hamilton 5

Tri Health Fitness-Cincinnati 5

World Gym-Gainesville 5

180 Sports & Fitness-Knoxville 4

Center Club-Newton 4

Crunch-42nd Street-New York 4

Crunch-Alton Rd-Miami Beach 4

Crunch-Lafayette St.-New York 4

Hampstead Health&Fit-E.Hampstead 4

Healthtrax-Glastonbury 4

InsideOut Gym-Memphis 4

Sunbay Fitness-Viera 4

Taking Care Center-Hartford 4

The Fitness Forum-Sanford 4

Unique Fitness-Wallingford 4

Women for Fitness-Bedford Hills 4

Club Boom-Ormond Beach 3

Laconia Athletic Club-Laconia 3

Rosalinds Uptown Fitness-Stuart 3

Saco Sport&Fitness-Saco 3

Saw Mill Club-Mt. Kisco 3

Versa Fit Studio-Voorhees 3

Yangs Fitness Center-Andover 3

Crunch-Archive-New York 2

Glenmoor Country Club -Canton 2

Michael's Body Scenes-Boca Raton 2

Sparta Athletic Club-Sparta 2

Torque Athletic Club-Bluffton 2

Captial City Club-Washington 1

Commitment Fitness-Centreville 1

Energie-Romulus 1

Fit Club-Washington 1

JCC Greater New Haven-Woodbridge 1

NETL Fitness - Morgantown 1

Paragon Athletic-New Hartford 1

Pennock Health Center-Hastings 1

Sayville Fitness-Sayville 1

Sparta Athletic Club-Sparta 1

Tangerine's Firm F.C.-Ft. Lauderdale - 8 1

Union Ave. Y Fitness-New Windsor 1

World Gym-Coram 1

World Gym-Lexington Park 1

West Coast Riders per Club 6/17

ScottAthletesforaCure — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:41:17 GMT

Crunch-Chestnut-San Francisco 42

Spectrum-Canoga Park 36

Extreme Gearz-Apple Valley 26

Crunch-Sunset-Los Angeles 19

Crunch-Van Ness-San Francisco 14

Flow Hood River 12

Crunch-Alhambra-San Francisco 12

Mavericks Sports Club-Concord 9

Crunch-Hills Plaza-San Francisco 9

Incline Village R.C-Incline Village 6

Crunch-New Montgomery-San Fran 6

PureFitness-Carlsbad 5

Jungle Gym Fitness Ctr.-Fairbanks 5

Coronado Yoga Center-Coronado 5

La Jolla Sports Club-La Jolla 4

Hot Body Fitness-San Leandro 4

World Gym-San Francisco 3

24 Hour Fitness-Ladera Ranch 2

Gold's Gym-Lewiston 1

Getting people to sign up as riders.

Mark Blackman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:48:15 GMT

We are doing all the publicity at our club and have many riders who ride regularly. Any ideas on how to actually get them to register? I am ready to bring my laptop to the gym and do it for them just to get them going.

The AIDS Research Alliance FAQ

GoJuJuGo — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:59:00 GMT

What is AIDS Research Alliance?

AIDS Research Alliance (ARA) is a non-profit AIDS research organization seeking a cure to AIDS and medical strategies to prevent the further spread of HIV. ARA pursues promising ideas based solely on treatment potential, without regard for profit or politics.

Why should I support AIDS Research Alliance?

• It will be impossible to end the AIDS epidemic without medical research

• 33 million people are now living with HIV worldwide

• In 2007, another 2.5 million people are newly infected with the HIV virus. 2.1 million people died of AIDS-related illnesses.

What kind of research does AIDS Research Alliance conduct?

AIDS Research Alliance conducts human clinical trials, speeding the pace at which more effective HIV/AIDS treatments are discovered and made available to the AIDS community. Our research ranges from supplementary therapies that take a holistic approach to HIV treatment, to first-in-human drug trials, vaccine studies and pre-clinical research into HIV eradication. We strive to improve the health of people living with HIV; prevent healthy individuals from becoming infected with HIV; and find a cure for HIV/AIDS.

How is AIDS Research Alliance different from other AIDS organizations?

AIDS Research Alliance actually conducts the medical research for which it raises funds, thus eliminating a layer of bureaucracy. While it provides some direct care and treatment to AIDS/HIV patients; we goal is to end the epidemic by attacking the disease itself.

How much does AIDS Research Alliance spend towards research?

ARA leverages volunteer collaborations and in-kind services to spends as little as possible on overhead as possible. Fully 85% of every donation goes directly towards research and education. This is why ARA received the much-coveted four-star rating from Charity Navigator. http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7701

What have been ARA’s successes?

ARA has been an investigative site for almost half of the anti-HIV medications currently approved by the FDA. ARA’s efforts led directly to the approval of four of these drugs including nelfinavir (Viracept™), a protease inhibitor regarded as an effective and well-tolerated anchor drug in many triple therapy combinations, and tenofovir (Viread™), the first drug indicated for patients in a “salvage situation” whose immune systems do not respond to any other HIV drugs. ARA is the only non-profit to be awarded a federal license to develop an anti-HIV treatment

Instructor and Ambassador Shorts

GoJuJuGo — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:15 GMT

Hi All,

Please read the info below. If you are an instructor or ambassador who has reached your fundraising goal and would like your shorts by Event Day, please follow the instructions below ASAP. Thanks!

Tshirts and Spinning bags will be shipped in time for the event to each person who has raised the minimum fundraising requirements by June 9th, 2008 at 9am (PST).

Spinning Nation jerseys will be shipped in time for the event to all Ambassadors and Instructors who have raised the minimum fundraising requirements by June 9th, 2008 at 9am (PST).

All Instructor Spinning Nation bike shorts as well as Rider Spinning Nation jerseys and bike shorts will be ordered on June 29th, 2008, with an expected delivery of 4-6 weeks post-event, to each participant who has raised the minimum fundraising requirements.

Please note, IF an Instructor would like to receive Mad Dogg Athletic SPINNING brand bike shorts IN PLACE of Spinning Nation bike shorts in order to receive them by Event Day, and they have raised the minimum fundraising requirements, we would be happy to provide them. In order to make this substitution, the instructor must notify greta@sportsgrants.org by Sunday, May 18th, 2008 at 9pm (PST). Otherwise, all Instructor Spinning Nation bike shorts will be delivered 4-6 weeks post event.

Awards will be shipped to the size preference and address provided in the online registration.

And the winner is . . .

GoJuJuGo — Wed, 21 May 2008 00:04:46 GMT

The winner of our iMix drawing for a new iPod Nano is Instructor Tami Reilly for the Shakti Hills iMix. Here are a few words from Tami on Spinning Nation . . . .

"We do have a few things in common, one is our love for Spinning -what the program is truly about and how it makes us feel and we do it because we can. That's the reason why we need events like Spinning Nation - to remind us of all those who can't and to do our part to help tackle some of the deadliest diseases out there that prevent people from doing what they want to do. For those of us who feel good and move when and where we want, we can't imagine how AIDS or cancer will impact our lives. We all need to do something to work towards the elimination of these deadly diseases. We need to somehow reach out and help those beyond our reach. We are all in it together - today I ride to help find a cure for you - tomorrow it may be for me - we just don't know. The passion inside this program can help to make one person at a time feel and be better. How can we not? Three amazing causes together - that's a no brainer! We do it because we can!"

Mid/Central Riders per club as 0f 6/17

ScottAthletesforaCure — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:12:49 GMT

Premier Athletic Club-Metairie 51

Fort Collins Club-Fort Collins 15

GET FIT- Wilmington 14

Four Seasons Assoc.-Bloomington 10

Wellbridge Athletic Club-Clayton 9

Sanderson Center - MSU 8

YMCA Cass Cty.-Logansport 7

Memorial Athletic Club-Huston 6

Crunch-Lincoln Park-Chicago 5

Extreme Fitness for Women-Glasgow 5

Langham Creek YMCA-Houston 5

T.E.N. CENTER- Chicago 5

Workout Freedom-Spring 5

Fitworks Fitness Ctr-Rocky River 4

Gold's Gym-Springfield 4

Landmark Health Club-Peoria 4

M.C. Fitness-Owatonna 4

St. Louis Fitness Factory-St. Louis 4

Crunch-Marina City-Chicago 3

Salt Lake C.C. - Murray 3

Crunch Grand&Wabash-Chicago 2

Roselle Park District-Roselle 2

Energy-Padcuah 1

Impact Athletic-Burley 1

inner strength fitness-Minneapolis 1

Pine Ridge Fitness-Fort Wayne 1

Sky Fitness&Wellbeing-Tulsa 1

Why do instructors have to fundraise?

Spinfit — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:59:32 GMT

As a Spinning instructor I'm a little put off by the organizers telling me I have to fundraise $250 to be able to teach a segment of the Spinning Nation event. I'm already donating my time, what's up with that? Anybody else feel this way?

Registration and Donation Page Questions

GoJuJuGo — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:56:09 GMT

Hi All!

We just wanted to remind you that Active is available to help out with all Registration and Donation Page questions. They can be reached at the phone number below to give you assistance on the spot!

Active Customer Support: 877-228-4881 then press option 2